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- The annual Jaycar warehouse sale, take it for a buck or it goes in the dumpster!
UPDATE: Yes, all the hard drives work.
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Wow. Lucky devil. I would have brought a truck and loaded up. I'd be like a kid in the candy store.
id bring a fleet of semi trucks on day 1 and just take it all
haha same here :)
Went to a sale kind of like this in the states a while ago. Also ended up buying like 30 PVR's for a grand total of like $50. Each one of them had a 500GB hard drive inside, and a couple were a slightly different model (didn't really notice any discernible difference inside) with 1TB hard drives. Was such an awesome score.
I need to find a place like this near me! I'm so jealous.
How do people find out about these sales? I really wish I had the opportunity to go to some of these. (in the US)
Dave I can not believe that you did not take all those power supplies, they would have made a perfect giveaway. Only the real electronics nerds would applied, since they are faulty and need repair :)
Going for the stuff with HDDs in it was a good call. Even 500GB ones have a resale value higher than a dollar, and even if you didn't wanna sell them, you can never really have too much external storage.
Bloody hell, how does one learn about events like this? I have never seen anything like this in my country.
For those who saw the original video on EEVBlog2, skip to 9:00
thank you!
Thanks!
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I wish I could've grabbed a few of those generators! Would've been an interesting learning experience, tearing them down!
I guess Australian eBay is going to be flooded with stuff from that sale! LOL
lol yeah at least some ebayers clean them before selling, not like the majority of lowlifes that sell stuff all crusty and dirty for over average prices.
I am a current Jaycar Electronics staff member and majority of all that would've been from the 100+ stores around aus as part of the company's stock return process. Every store has a PER (Past Economical repair) process in place so everything under $150 gets destroyed at store level everything else gets sent back to the warehouse to either get fixed and reissued back to the store as a refurbished item or as shown be sold to the public for spares. And yes i have sold many a life to customers.
It's the worst when you do a stock check on life only to discover it's Out Of Stock. xD
so those are AT LEAST $150?
do these sales happen in adelaide?
also your pricing department is from the darkest depths of hell (no reason for everything to be so damn expensive)
The sales usually only take place at the warehouse itself, which is in Sydney.
I wish I could find something like this in the states!
omg.. so glad I'm not down in AU.. I'd probably have grabbed 1-2K$ worth of stuff, and have to expand the house later.
I'd probably have grabbed a dozen of the Xenon torches for the carrying cases alone.. not to mention a pallet full of DMX stuff.
for 1 k you could buy everything there, including unlimited amounts of life
Dave, could you get Doug Ford back in the lab to take a look at that amp? Would be interesting to hear both of you discuss, shall we say, the limitations of its design.
Hmm, interesting idea.
The chips probably supposed to be like that, plug it in and see what happens haha
Yes indeed, I bet that man would have alot of interesting stuff to say.
This is the most awesome thing I've seen. We never have those in Europe :(
As far as I knwo its some stupid law.....
THANKS EU!
I prefer to know that this garbage end up in a recycling facility that in the nature.
ultort As Dave said, it was all going to an e-waste facility if it wasn't sold.
I can recycle them myself if I can't fix them. But I would of taken some quad copters and some other stuff for 1$ a piece I could get 10-20 make some of them work and give them as present and recycle what is left.
There is no EU rule that says this can't happen, but we also don't have any such big retailer that would have its own brand from china.
The drives were a great score. I would just use them to back up data. Hell, you could backup the same data on 2 or 3 drives if you were really worried about 1. Triple redundancy for $3.
Wouldn't those solar panels be worth it for a dollar?
Great score. Wish I had something like that near me. Just wanted to say that you should test those drives by powering them on a bench supply first, with and without the 3.3v rail. I had a drive recently that had a bad regulator on it that was causing some weird power issues and it eventually killed the computers power supply. It was intermittent, but was occasionally trying to force 12v on the 5v rail and occasionally shorted. Didn't discover the power issues until it was too late but at least I was able to fix the power supply. :/
Edit: Really wish there was something like that near me. I seem to like the broken stuff more and I don't know why. Is that some mental illness? I don't know, maybe its just that its so cheap.
Man, I'd love to have gotten my hands on them hard drives! I'd have grabbed a few of the inverters and tried to got one or two good one's out to it. That BGA chip was hilarious... _Psst! Balls are showing!_
This video will get flagged
Balls.
Oh god not the balls and flagging
Obviously not advertiser friendly.
Bloody good heatsink compound though.
Why isn't something like this here in germany? :(
I remember LIDL did something similar like 15 years ago. They set up a tent on their parking lot and sold all things they couldn't sell over the year for like 10% of their original price and less.
Because all your shit you don't want/out of warranty gets sold in Romania. Source: all my computers
conrad doesnt go down to 1 dollar but they have a tent outside the wernberg store. also most stores have a bin for the faulty stuff.
also check pollin for discount stuff.
DO u happen to know of any other sales like that here in Finland? I have almost given up on finding good stuff, so I mostly order from huuto when i see something of value.
Fuck it! I am moving to Austria!
(Not Australia)?
TheMixedupstuff Don't ruin it...
Eviltech
How's that?
(Changed the comment so it's hidden)
TheMixedupstuff It's a running joke. Me commenting to you was also joking. Don't dig in to it...
Austria? Isn't that where Kangaroos are from?!
You lucked dog, you!!!
Love their catalog, first saw them in the states and now I am stationed in the EU, take a long time to get stuff sent over here.
The late RadioShack in the USA used to have similar tent sales of all their refurbs, discontinued and non working goods.
Where / how do you get notified of sales / dumps like this? As a dirt poor tech enthusiast id love to start scavenging but I don't know how to find local things like this.
I noticed it on the Jaycar website a couple of days before the event.
Maybe someone's set up a site that tracks who's running warehouse clearance sales like these? If not, maybe you could. Call it TechWarehouseClearanceSales.com.au or something like that.
Seriously!!!! I need to be connected to this! I am in usa, and I know there are thousands of companies that just discard all of these items as well. Where can we get a cut into these deals??????
I scored a dead one of those rack-mount subwoofer amplifiers for free a couple of years ago. The output stage appeared to have caught fire, so there was no chance of repairing it.
It made an excellent enclosure for a stereo amp I built myself though! :)
Lol. "the output stage appeared to have caught fire". Obviously, they couldn't afford any output protection?
I would've got all those big inverters, just for their cases.
it's almost worth to fly down to Australia just to get this stuff
Setup a JBOD disk array with Stablebit Drivepool! You can setup duplication but the best part is that it also plays nicely with "Green" hard drives and data recovery software if anything goes wrong.
Just a tip some DVRs/PVRs have a setting on the hard drives turned off so they don't spin up on start up so use HDAT2 to fix that issue.
I could buy even 1000kg of these powertech smps.
I'm soooo jelaous that there is no sales like that in my country :<
Broken unit like that is about 100$ in my country ^^
I could turn all that crap into bag of money.
mine too. the broken are repaired and sell like new. (3 times more expensive that in the rest of the world)
and by bag of money he means currency is Vietnamese Dong
I wish they did such sales around here :/
that's totally crazy man I wish we have places like that in the UK because I would go coo coo
I actually work at a Jaycar shop. We do process alot of returns in store but I never thought that this much stuff was sent back! I even saw stuff from more than 7 or 8 years ago in those piles (Even considering the upload date)!
I love stuff like this, honestly. even crap electronics, just gut 'em for parts. The turntables are left over because anyone who actually uses LPs wouldn't use a crap turntable like that. Total score on the hard drives, if you can find some JBOD solution or something, there's your backups! or a file server kinda thing for home media why not? Thanks Dave for keeping the dumpster dive relevant!
Regarding the turntables, couldn't some robotics project use the motors out of them?
I would even take these power amps. Nice to use the case and power supply section.
With a bit of luck they have decent transformers in them.
To bad they don't have these things in my country :(
That nightvision amplifier looks very similar to what i own. Mine does have a proper light amplification tube, but it also has an IR LED for complete darkness. Practically - in outside conditions - you need the IR only if you want to see details, such as if you're searching for something on the ground. Even a starry, but moonless night is enough to give it enough light to amplify and keep you on the road, path or whatever. Motion detecting is quite impaired though, but that relates to the properties of human eye and brains.
im gonna have to go down to one of these jaycar things. This is so cool I liked those power amps. Glad i live in Australia!
I have same 2.5 hdd. Working 24/7 for 4 years straight. No problems.
Parts Express outside Dayton, Ohio has a yearly tent sale/audio competition. Nothing on this scale, but a lot of faulty/damaged audio equipment and other miscellany. Prices decrease throughout the day and are very negotiable towards the end. Great resource for older/discontinued equipment, electronic related odds and ends, and the occasional oddball great find. I found it well worth a 2.5 hour drive!
Do a RAID 6 setup with a bunch of the drives, and allocate others for backing up a 500GB SSD. I use a bunch of bare drives with an eSATA dock in order to do cold backups of some of my drives. I simply store them in a safe, and simply grab the oldest one, and image over it, thus allowing for around a year worth of monthly snapshots.
In the USA, namely Torrance California there use to be a Computer Salvage yard which I called the Computer Graveyard. You could buy old equipment and parts at low low prices. It's how I was able to by my Xerox 6085 Star Workstation (Runs Xerox Global View "Windows) from 1985 for $30.00. I miss that place.
Holy Hell! I have $800 in my pocket. I would have spent every dime.
Wouldn't these UPS be good source for 12v batteries?
yup, just for scrap you'd be turning a profit, nevermind if they are modified square sine wave...
the transistor/ igbt inside too XD
if you really wanted
you could go there buy a bunch of expensive items that are in good cosmetic condition then buy a working one from an interstate store then a day later return the faulty one in the new box and get a refund so you get a working one for next to nothing or exchange it and get 2 working units for the price of 1
Please share dates for the next sale to your viewers! I'm sure there would be nothing left!
10:55
Another tip.
Those 'hanging scales' that people use to check for baggage weight at airports? Well, the units with the stuff that hasn't been removed (like batteries or HDDs) will weigh more. Also useful if you can't get the damn thing open because of exotic or rusted screws.
"I might have got ripped off for a dollar" haha xD Great vid as always, thanks for showing us :D
You can buy a dock that allows you to simply drop in a sata drive and run it. Grab one of those and use those drives as offline storage of footage or media or something?
Definitely do some archive storage project. With those little drives you could fit a lot of storage in a small space.
Why not these in Finland! IM ALMOST CRYING TO GET THERE!!!!
Tears from India! :'(
I would like these in finland too :D
Here they don't even have a proper e-waste disposal system. It would be fine if you dumped a 200Ah SLA battery into your kitchen waste bin. -_-
In Finland you would be in prison by doing that.
We need that stuff here before it is too late!
Skip: 9:00 Save the heat sinks too, could be worth a couple bucks each.
in Northern California there was HSC electronics. Lots of surplus stuff, lab gear and general nerd gold.
This seems like a duplicate? Not talking about the one on EEVBlog2, but there's an identical one on this channel already, unless this one has any changes.
Audio has been fixed
Ah, yes. It sounded a bit crusty.
Audio was fixed. Handbrake caused an issue for some unknown reason.
I have experimented with handbreak. You couldn't possibly make a youtube encoding and uploading tutorial could you? That'd be really useful as you have a lot of experience.
Yeah, I'd probably slap those drives in a jbod for backup video storage. Make sure to test them first, give them a run through a badblocks (linux command) test. Supermicro and Norco have some jbod enclosures that'll just export sata or sas ports to connect to an external box. Or you can go higher end with a rack mount NAS box.
One of the Jessops shops near me did something like this a few years back, 99% off everything. Got a load of camera batteries for a few pence each, made some decent money reselling them on eBay. Just wish I'd had more money at the time, went back an hour later and the shop was empty.
button batteries and hard drives two of my favorite electronic items
about the PVR with the 'unpopulated socket', it could just as easily be for the 'improved sibling' that requires a more feature-rich chip.
the faulty UPSes would be good for the SLA batteries alone. i would have grabbed a pile of them.
You can make descent flywheels of the hard-drive plates for motors etc. :)
Those amplifiers at 2:00 have been made for over 15 years, and have been rebranded as the Wharfedale WPA-3038 and also there was an Eltax version. They're pretty crappy, with a poor signal-to-noise ratio, although to be fair, the one I had was actually a 2003 build and still working, so they do actually last.
When I owned San Jose Computer, I went to these kind of sales all the time. I found that usually over half the stuff works just fine.. They were avoiding tax
Never buy a plastic turntable, not even for a Dollar.
Noisy as hell on the playback, I take it?
Well, if buy your vinyl 10 pieces a dollar, it probably doesn't matter :) But ignoring the sound, all components are cheap as shit and if you get a turntable from Walmart for 50 bucks, I'd be worried that that thing will plow a new groove in to your precious vinyl, so I would never put mine on one of those cheap ass plastic things.
be prepared for white van sales of highest end audio equipment!
looks like there was enough stuff to make a fpv drone with dvr, which is infinetly easier to fly and more fun than one might imagine.
My bigger comment went away it seems, but in short: get a few cheap HBA's off of eBay (M1015 for example, flash to IT mode), connect the disks, run ZFS (i.e. using FreeNAS or zfsGuru). Optionally, make a case like in the Black Dwarf Video Worklog (UA-cam videos, I think it was 2 parts)
Here's a challenge Dave, How about sacrificing a couple of those drives to present a series of videos on how to fix broken hard drives. The videos could open up a broken HD and show the various things that can go wrong, how to test for these things and how to fix them. eg the circuit board goes bung or the disk read head goes bung.
Buy a server off eBay like an IBM x3650 M3 (check auctions) or any somewhat recent 2.5 inch harddrive servers newer than 2010(do not buy 1u server). You can make use of them in a huge raid array and backup all your videos and other files. I would recommend freenas as an os and maybe also do some zfs stuff too.
I would love to take everything and have a look inside, especially for a dollar each!
From Scotland: our Big Clive would love this.
Pity I live on the other side of the country, some of those inverters would have been just the ticket, buy 10 get most working sell off at the local hamfest...
Those hard disks would not go to waste here, I experiment with linux distros and usually have smaller drives in the caddy so swapping distros is nice and fast.
As for other stuff, some are just blown fuses if it like what a friend scored in his heap of stuff from a warehouse sale in the UK, he replaced a lot of blown fuses and sorted dry joints because of that lousy lead free solder used now.
With the price of the drives you got, I'd say optimize for storage capacity with an automated backup to a cloud storage server.
Last time I checked, JBOD is cheaper to implement and simpler to set up compared to RAID, and you get more capacity as well (JBOD = Just a Bunch Of Disks).
Using a cloud backup service of some sort solves the major weak-point of a JBOD array, as well as providing you with an off-site backup in case something happens to the storage server's location.
Besides, all the disks were acquired at the same time. Assuming similar usage patterns (easily satisfied by them all being used in a storage array), it's reasonable to say that as soon as one drive fails, the rest of that same model and capacity are soon to follow.
RAID won't save you from that unless you take the array offline and replace the failed drive as soon as you know it's failed, and that could get expensive quick (especially compared to initial expenditure).
Even for slower drives when you build a big array the speed can add up. You can put your 25 500GB drives into a single 24-drive RAID 6 array and a hot spare. This gives you 11TB storage space, 22x read performance (write is not that good though, probably 8x) and allows up to three drives in the array to fail without you losing any data. You will need an disk enclosure and an RAID card with enough ports.
You can use the hard drives for a storage array for deep learning
Didn't know this existed, I definitely owe you a beer Dave. Extra points for the extensive usage of dodgy and crusty.
How can I know about these sales events? I have absolutely no way to be notified about them
A lot of Security DVR's use hard drives these days, the more expensive ones use ssd's. If you get el-cheapo ones they have flash memory cards or something like that. The interesting part is I never came across a DVR yet without a dedicated storage device that's removable. For $1 you at least have a bunch of good connectors.
If I was there, I would have shown up with a moving truck and bought as much as I could fit in it. I would have scrapped most of it for thing like heatsinks, transformers, and motors. A lot of it could probably be fixed by swapping parts between units and sold on ebay too.
I wouldn't count on any of that junk being repairable by part-swapping; especially since it's likely they all have similar faults due to the low (or non-existant) quality control.
Wow, I want to go there too :(
Does anyone know if there's something like that in germany too and what I have to look for?
try pearl.de they shure have a ton of scrap
Hmm, seems a little bit like Pollin...
you can get warranty on hard drive if the manufacturing date is not too far you can check warranty status of hard drive on western digital website even without bill you can get warranty
How did you hear about this? I'm in Sydney too and I had no idea!
Will there be another one next year?
Probably a good thing that I was unaware of this sale... missus would be fairly unhappy if I rocked up with a van load of *more* faulty equipment to add to the pile. And yeah, I know from experience that those Digitech amps are woeful.
Would have liked to grab some of the cheap lighting kit though.
Not sure if those hard drives are suitable for general computer use. They were the WD AV models. I am not in a position to verify though. Just going by memory.
I used to work for Jaycar, until the start of this year. Looking at the piles of shit in their warehouse, in your video, I immediately knew what the common faults were with a lot of those things. The quadcopters, usually, weren't actually faulty. People just didn't know how to tune the balance, and then blamed the copter, and wanted their money back. It was less of a headache for us to mark them as faulty (I don't mean in a lazy "I don't wanna do the paperwork" sense, but in a "there is seriously no procedure for handling clearly used stock on a refund" sense).
You are right for youtube harddrive space and backup space until the end of time lol
You could use the hard drives with raspberry pi projects such as retro pi or a media centre.
You should have grabbed a few of those power inverts to house your new raid drives. :)
"For five bucks, duude" - I lost there :D
Building your own RAID enclosure should be cheaper than what you can buy by quite a bit, especially with that many drives. I like the startech 4 port SATA cards for this, then using something like linux RAID, LVM or some people like ZFS. Or freenas to just have it do it all for you. They make 3.5"/5.25" -> multiple 2.5" bay adapters too to get more in to 1 case.
Anything more than 4 or so bays in a premade enclosure is going to get astronomically expensive.
Or the Syba SY-ENC25042 as well for dual HHD 2.5" with USB 3.0 Interface..!!!
By same price, with shipping..!
And same top Speed...!
How would one find a sale like this?
So much stuff to get my hands on to tinker and fix. Too bad is on the other side. US Stores need to do this kind of event.
You can score it big if you can put all those 500gig disks in the sama machine, you can have a pretty awesome NAS, lot of bandwidth with a lot of redundancy.
if you can get them in your country there is the sky+hd boxes that too contain 500GB hard drives look out for them
I love those clearance sales. Although I don't get stuff like, a dollar each. Usually it's about 40% to 80% off depending on the fault. I sure enjoy taking things apart and figuring out what's wrong with it. Most of the times I fix it, sometimes not thou.
Bought lots of technology that way, sometimes things that are way too expensive to buy on regular retail prices.
i stopped watching because im so jealous !!!!!
Create a RAID 6 array, should give you a fairly fast 10TB drive for storage with multi-disk parity so it could survive the couple of drives that will be faulty.
Those huge inverters where nice. If you fix them up and get a forklift battery from somewhere, backup power for your whole house :-)
I wish I could be there, I LOVE this stuff!!
Build a NAS, get yourself a cheap SoC Gigabyte mother board with with dual gigabit Ethernet, 2 laptop RAM sticks 8 Gb each, a 750 w half decent EVGA power supply, some old server case with a lot of hard drive bays, a raid card and some way of connecting it to the drives (a backplate in the case or a bunch of sas to sata cables and molex to sata power adapters)
You can install free NAS on it and set up a giant ZFS 2 15Tb volume to save all of your videos and have them available over the network
*laughs* I think those quadcopters were rebranded Syma ones, see them all the time here in Canada, good enough for the kiddies but not really good for any other uses, I guess one could part them down for the motors and the controller? Oh and I bet if there were any that had the rotors attached that you might find some lovely hair curled around the shaft area between the bottom of the rotor and the chassis.
16:55 "What on earth is that?" That is a 500 Watt wind turbine, Cat# MG4590
Half of that crap probably had fault return cards written by me.
Sadly, Jaycar employees from other states don't get a chance to score any of this stuff.
Congratulations! You are the winner. You will not need to buy any electronic equipment for the coming 50 years if the technology is stale.
Wow such a score, would love to get my hands on the hard drives for a server
Man, I would've totally stocked up on those solar panels. Can always use them for something, even if you have to resolder some of them, or just use some of the individual cells out of them.